Jannette Cheong Editor & Author

Jannette Cheong is a poet, playwright, and designer. A former art inspector, she had led education and intercultural collaborations internationally for forty years. A Theatre Nohgaku (TN) affiliated artist, she has written noh (Pagoda, 2009, 2011 and Between the Stones, 2020) in collaboration with the Oshima Noh Theatre and Richard Emmert, using traditional noh techniques, and is the first British person to do so. In 2017, she wrote Opposites-InVerse, blending noh, opera and ballet. She lives in London, England. Richard Emmert is the founder and former artistic director of Theatre Nohgaku, a company dedicated to performing noh in English. He has led performance tours and projects in North America, Europe and Asia and has composed music in noh style for numerous pieces including in French and Spanish. He was awarded the Koizumi Prize in 2019 and is Professor emeritus of Musashino University. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.